Only eating 1200 calories a day and not losing Weight

So for over a year now I have only been eating 1200 calories a day which is what MFP reccomends for me to lose weight. When I do exercise I burn more therefore I eat more. But I haven’t been losing weight I’m the same weight I was last year. Sometimes I might lose a few lbs so think it’s working but then next week they would of been gained back. I don’t understand
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  • xx1chloe5xx
    xx1chloe5xx Posts: 44 Member
    @muscleflex22 if it’s something like cheese or cereal where I only want the reccomend amount for the calories I will weights otherwise I just read the back of the packaging for example it will say 1 chicken fillet is 300 calories so I just record everything I eat
  • xx1chloe5xx
    xx1chloe5xx Posts: 44 Member
    @janejellyroll it does for example it will say 30g of frosted flakes is like 134 calories so I will then weigh out 30g frosted flakes
  • xx1chloe5xx
    xx1chloe5xx Posts: 44 Member
    @janejellyroll if the packaging says 1 chicken is 300 cAlories then it mostly likely is 300 calories there not allowed to lie.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,282 Member
    Lillymoo01 wrote: »
    I don’t eat my excercise calories and I don’t like that the app adds the calories onto your total. If I eat the excercise calories I always gain.

    That would be because you are inaccurately logging your food and eating much more than you think you are.


    This is true - but course that doesn't matter if you are in fact losing as expected eating what you think you are eating and not eating back excercise calories.
    The inaccurate logging evens up with the non eaten excercise calories and what you are doing is working.

    It also doesn't help OP much since what she is doing is not working.





  • xx1chloe5xx
    xx1chloe5xx Posts: 44 Member
    This was my food diary from the other day. The curry was a ready meal from Asda. I gained 3lbs after this and I was under calorie limit and exercised and lost almost 400 calories which I forgot to add on. I don’t know how to open my diary 92ih5jnd2hdz.png
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  • deannalfisher
    deannalfisher Posts: 5,600 Member
    The chicken/curry/rice is that a recipe you made? A packaged meal?
  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 6,841 Member
    The chicken/curry/rice is that a recipe you made? A packaged meal?

    It's a supermarket ready meal. I thought the calories looked very low for 350gr but I checked the supermarket website and it is correct. The only question there is if it really weighs 350 grams exactly.